OSS

OSS may refer to:

Places

  • Oss, a city and municipality in the Netherlands
  • Osh Airport, IATA code OSS

People with the name

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • O.S.S. (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents
  • The Gang of Oss (film), a 2011 Dutch film set in the city of Oss during the 1930s

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Open Source Shakespeare, non-commercial website with texts and statistics on Shakespeare's plays
  • O.S.S. (TV series), a British spy series which aired in 1957 in the UK and the US
  • Old Syriac Sinaiticus, a Bible manuscript
  • Organization of Super Spies, a fictional organization in the Spy Kids franchise

Computer software and hardware

  • Open Search Server, search engine software
  • Open Sound System, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems
  • Open-source software, software with its source code made freely available
  • Operations support systems, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems

Education

Organizations

  • Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, dedicated to fighting desertification and drought; based in Tunis, Tunisia
  • Office for Science and Society, Science Education from Montreal's McGill University
  • Office of Strategic Services, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Office of the Supervising Scientist, an Australian Government body under the Supervising Scientist
  • Offshore Super Series, an offshore powerboat racing organization
  • Open Spaces Society, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces
  • Operations Support Squadron, a United States Air Force support squadron

Science and technology

  • Ohio Sky Survey
  • Optical SteadyShot, a lens-based image stabilization system by Sony
  • Optimal Stereo Sound, another name for the Jecklin Disk recording technique
  • Oriented spindle stop, a type of spindle motion used within some G-code cycles
  • Ovary Sparing Spay (OSS)
  • Overspeed Sensor System (OSS), part of the Train Protection & Warning System for railroad trains

Other uses

See also

  • AAS (disambiguation)
  • Hoz (disambiguation)
  • OS (disambiguation)
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